Electrode array device having an adsorbed porous reaction layer having a linker moiety

a technology of porous reaction layer and electrode array, which is applied in the direction of sequential/parallax process reactions, microorganism testing/measurement, biological apparatus and processes, etc., can solve the problems of acidic reagents that cannot travel away from electrodes, oligo quality problems, and ph decreases, so as to improve synthesis quality

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-05-18
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[0018] The present invention provides an electrode microarray having an adsorbed porous reaction layer having a linker group attached thereto for improved synthesis quality. The microarray comprises a plurality of electrodes on a substrate, wherein the electrodes are electronically connected to a computer control system. In addition, the microarray has an adsorbed porous reaction layer on the plurality of electrodes, wherein the adsorbed porous reaction layer comprises a chemical species having at least one hydroxyl group. The chemical species is selected from the group consisting of monosaccharides, disaccharides, trisaccharides, polyethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol derivative, N-hydroxysuccinimide, formula I, formula II, formula III, formula IV, formula V, formula VI, and formula VII, and combinations thereof. Formula I is

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The pH decreases only in the vicinity of the electrode because the ability of the acidic reagent to travel away from an electrode is limited by natural diffusion and by a buffer in solution.
Oligo microarrays made with the electrochemical process as disclosed in Montgomery 1, II, and III have had problems with oligo quality, where quality is judged by missing deoxynucleotide bases in sequences resulting from inefficient deblocking.
In addition, quality problems can arise from delamination of the coating over the electrodes.
Control pore glass coatings and polysaccharide agarose coatings are both prone to delamination quality problems.
Such quality problems have caused the resulting oligo microarray to be less useful for sensitivity of gene expression assays (i.e., finding low abundance mRNA species) and for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) assays, wherein single base changes need to be detected.
Peptide synthesis on electrode microarrays has also been problematic.
Similar quality problems have been found for glass microarrays, where research has found inefficient reactions of the various reagents with functional groups close to glass plate surfaces (LeProust et al.).

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[0146] In an embodiment of the present invention, an electrode microarray having an adsorbed porous reaction layer for improved synthesis quality is provided. The microarray has a plurality of electrodes attached to a substrate, wherein the electrodes are electronically connected to a computer control system that allows selection of any electrode individually or more than one electrode as group of electrodes. FIGS. 1A and 1B are schematics of a cross section of two electrodes 108, 110 of such a microarray 106 having a plurality of electrodes. In one embodiment of the present invention, an adsorbed layer 104A shown in FIG. 1A covers the electrodes and the substrate that the electrodes are attached thereto. The adsorbed layer 104A has hydroxyl reactive groups 102. The reactive groups 102 can be groups other than hydroxyl including but not limited to amine, carboxylic acid, aldehyde, thiol, alkene, alkyne, nitrile, azido, or phosphorous-based compound. In another embodiment shown in FI...

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[0170] This example illustrates microarrays of nucleotides prepared using selected adsorbed porous reaction layers on the different microarrays. Each microarray was cleaned using the plasma cleaning method and the electrochemical cleaning method or using the plasma cleaning method and the hydrogen peroxide cleaning method, each as disclosed herein. After cleaning, each microarray was exposed to a solution containing a chemical for forming an adsorbed porous reaction layer as disclosed herein. The chemicals used for the experiments included agarose, sucrose, diethylene glycol, ethylene glycol, N-hydroxysuccinimide, triethylene glycol, raffinose, melizitose, Splenda®, inulin, polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of 8000, salicin, ribose, and melibiose.

[0171] After each microarray w prepared having a porous reaction layer, different nucleotides of either 15 mer, shown in FIGS. 11 though 19, 25, and 26, or 35 mer, shown in FIGS. 5 through 10, were synthesized in situ on each m...

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[0180] This example illustrates a peptide array with and without a combination linker and spacer that was synthesized on an electrode microarray of platinum electrodes having an absorbed porous reaction layer comprising sucrose. The combination linker and spacer was a 16 T unit synthesized in situ. After synthesis of the combination linker and spacer, the peptide array was synthesized in situ thereon. Fluorescent reagent was used to image the peptides, but the only image that could be seen was on the electrodes having the combination linker and spacer.

[0181] The electrode microarray used was a commercial microarray made by CombiMatrix Corporation (CUSTOMARRAY) (Dill et al., Anal. Chim. Acta 2001, 444:69, and Montgomery I, II, and III). The microarray consisted of a semiconductor silicon chip with an array of 1024 individually serially addressable 92-micrometer diameter platinum electrodes in a 16×64 pattern. Prior to using the microarray, the electrodes were coated with sucrose to ...

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Abstract

There is disclosed an electrode array device having an adsorbed porous reaction layer having a linker attacher thereto for improved synthesis quality. The array comprises a plurality of electrodes on a substrate, wherein the electrodes are electronically connected to a computer control system. The array has an adsorbed porous reaction layer having a linker attached thereto on the plurality of electrodes, wherein the adsorbed porous reaction layer comprises a chemical species having at least one hydroxyl group. In the preferred embodiment, the reaction layer is sucrose having an ionic linker comprised of DNA. In another preferred embodiment, the reaction layer is sucrose, fructose, and glucose having an ionic linker comprised of DNA.

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TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention provides an electrode microarray having an adsorbed porous reaction layer having a linker moiety attached thereto. Specifically, the present invention provides an electrode microarray having a plurality of electrodes, each having an adsorbed porous reaction layer having a linker moiety attached thereto to improve nucleic acid and peptide synthesis quality and increase assay sensitivity. More specifically, the present invention provides a computer controlled electrode microarray having a plurality of platinum-containing electrodes, each having an adsorbed porous reaction layer having a linker moiety attached thereto to significantly enhance the quality of synthesis of oligonucleotides, peptides, and other polymeric chemical species while improving binding assay sensitivity. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Microarrays and particularly nucleic acid microarrays have become important analytical research tools in pharmacolog...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C12Q1/68H01L21/00
CPCB01J19/0046B01J2219/00497B01J2219/00527B01J2219/00576B01J2219/00585B01J2219/00596B01J2219/00644B01J2219/00653B01J2219/00659B01J2219/00675B01J2219/00689B01J2219/00713B01J2219/00722B01J2219/00725B01J2219/00731B82Y30/00
Inventor MAURER, KARL
Owner CUSTOMARRAY
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